Let us consider the following stochastic differential equation:
Xt = x + Bt - 1/2 integral(0)(1) b(Xs)ds,
where (B-t)(t greater than or equal to 0) is a d-dimensional brownian motio
n starting at 0 and b a function from R-d to R-d which is a gradient field.
We aim at studying the convergence rate of the semi-group associated to (E
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